Women representing architecture and astronomy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1803, after R. Corbould.

Astronomy: a diagram of the sun, and various effects of sunlight. Coloured engraving.

Astronomy: the surface of the moon. Engraving.

Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including an shipwreck, a mob by St Paul's Cathedral, people dying from Cholera [?], and Hibernia pleading with Britannia [?]. Coloured lithograph, [c.1872?].

Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.

The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.

Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles. And made easy to those who have not studied mathematics / To which are added, a plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in the year 1761. An account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in the year 1639; and, of the distances of all the planets from the sun, as deduced from observations of the transit in the year 1761. By James Ferguson.

Christophori Clavii ... In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius. Nunc iterum ab ipso Auctore recognitus, et multis ac varÿs locis locupletatus / [Christoph Clavius].

Astronomy: the corona of the sun, viewed during a total solar eclipse. Process print after a photograph, 1878.

Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a mob by the Palace of Westminster [?], a mob being addressed by an orator in the City of London, and a paddle-steamer blowing up. Coloured lithograph, [c.1844?].

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Table of Longitudes and Latitudes of the Intersections of Circles and Parallels of Declination for every fine degrees ... of Right Ascension ... Obliquity of Ecliptic taken as 23°-27'-20''. Inscribed on the first leaf: 'With D. F. Mart's comp[limen]ts to Dr. Dixon. Aug. 25/[18]90'.

1 volume 10 ll. folio. 39 1/2 × 20 1/2 cm. Unbound.

Mart, D. F.

Astronomy: Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them. Engraving.

Histoire des sciences.

Histoire des sciences : textes et études

[vii], 490 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Les fondements de l'optique moderne : paralipomènes a Vitellion (1604) / Kepler ; traduction, introduction et notes par Catherine Chevalley ; préface de René Taton et Pierre Costabel.

Astronomy: a diagram of the earth and other planets. Coloured engraving, 1846

1 sheet : 2 illustrations (1 colour) ; 73 cm

Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / text: Professor S.C.B. Gascoigne.

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Mart, D. F.

Astronomy: Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them. Engraving.

Les fondements de l'optique moderne : paralipomènes a Vitellion (1604) / Kepler ; traduction, introduction et notes par Catherine Chevalley ; préface de René Taton et Pierre Costabel.

Astronomy: a diagram of the earth and other planets. Coloured engraving, 1846

Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / text: Professor S.C.B. Gascoigne.

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Astronomy

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Mart, D. F.

Astronomy: Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them. Engraving.

Les fondements de l'optique moderne : paralipomènes a Vitellion (1604) / Kepler ; traduction, introduction et notes par Catherine Chevalley ; préface de René Taton et Pierre Costabel.

Astronomy: a diagram of the earth and other planets. Coloured engraving, 1846

Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / text: Professor S.C.B. Gascoigne.

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